Workshops
UKeiG organised a workshop on Google, which was held on 8th February 2012 and hosted by Birimngham University. (My slides for the day can be found on authorSTREAM and on Slideshare). Twenty-two people from a variety of backgrounds and sectors attended the event and their combined Top 10 Tips are listed below. 1. An understanding of [...]
Continue reading about Top search tips from UKeiG Google workshop
Well, the proverbial has hit the fan with Google search getting really personal (Official Google Blog: Search, plus Your World http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/search-plus-your-world.html). Good news or bad news? A bit of both. It’s great for tracking down information or a comment made by someone within your personal social networks but a disaster if you are conducting serious, [...]
Continue reading about Workshop (Birmingham): How to make Google behave
The slides for my workshop “Searching without Google”, 28th November 2011, are available at: http://www.rba.co.uk/as/ – please note that this is a temporary location for the presentation and it will be removed after 2-3 months. Archive copies will remain on authorSTREAM and Slideshare authorSTREAM Slideshare There is also an addendum to the presentation that summarises [...]
Continue reading about Online Information pre-conference workshop: Searching without Google
The presentations I gave at International Librarian International this week in London are now available on my Advanced Search page at http://www.rba.co.uk/as/. They are also available on authorSTREAM and Slideshare. Searching without Google Presentation given as part of the main conference on Friday, 28th October 2011 It is also available on Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/KarenBlakeman/searching-without-google Web Search Academy [...]
The PowerPoint that was the outline for my workshop at UWE in Bristol earlier this week is now on authorSTREAM. The top 10 tips from the workshop participants are in my earlier blog posting “Business Information: Top Ten Tips from Bristol” http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2011/09/09/business-information-top-ten-tips/
The University of the West of England (UWE) hosted the UKeiG 8th September workshop on business information. The list of participants included people from academic libraries, public libraries, the legal sector and freelance researchers. The day got off to an interesting start with one of the participants telling me that a colleague of theirs thought [...]
Continue reading about Business Information: Top Ten Tips from Bristol
There is a lot happening in the UK business information sector at the moment. From two of my earlier postings on company information you will probably have gathered that competition between the providers is hotting up. And if you need statistics then the open data initiatives provide direct access to raw data – possibly. If [...]
Continue reading about Business Information Workshops – September
The presentation that I am giving later this morning (July 11th, 2011) to the South West and Mid Wales Library Partnership (SWAMP) is now available for viewing and download in various places. Entitled “Where’s everyone gone? New places and ways to meet your users” the presentation is mostly images so may not make much sense [...]
This week I was in Kent running a full day workshop on using Google for search. The participants came from a variety of subject backgrounds and interestingly their Top Tips have a slight technical bias. 1. Preview. Click on the magnifying glass next to an entry in your results list to see a preview of [...]
There are 14 places remaining on Mashed Library “Pancakes and Mash”, a library technology un-conference taking place at the University of Lincoln on 8 March 2011 (Shrove Tuesday). You can claim one of the last 14 places at: http://mashlib.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/booking/ Booking costs only £12 and will remain open until Monday, 28 February. There’s a growing list [...]
Continue reading about Pancakes and Mash: mashed library unconference – places still available
